Gimme Him: One player Giants would steal from the Broncos

Gimme Him: One player Giants would steal from the Broncos

Another week, another demoralizing loss and the third in a row in which the New York Giants held a lead in the fourth quarter. The Giants were 11-1 in such games in 2016. The defense has let the team down of late as injuries and under-performing starters are holding them back. It’s not the same unit that finished fourth in the NFL in points allowed a season ago.

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Say what you want about the offensive line, they finally opened everything up by creating space for Wayne Gallman and Orleans Darkwa to run through. The offense finished with 152 rush yards and averaged 6.1 yards per carry. While the right side of the line struggled to protect Eli Manning, the offense did enough to win the game.

After taking a 22-17 lead on a deep pass to Odell Beckham Jr. in the fourth quarter, the Giants defense let Philip Rivers do whatever he wanted offensively. The Los Angeles Chargers would go on to score 10 unanswered points and put the game away.

Olivier Vernon is a massive absence on defense; he missed the Chargers game and has been ruled inactive for this week’s game against the Denver Broncos. Even with him in the lineup, the Giants have struggled to get to the quarterback.

One could chalk it up to playing four pretty mobile quarterbacks in the first five weeks. That doesn’t seem to be a good excuse as they managed zero sacks on Rivers, who plays behind a poor offensive line and is as immobile as Manning. The Giants are tied for 30th in the league with just eight sacks.

That’s why this week’s Gimme Him has to be Von Miller.

Miller has earned an “elite” grade from Pro Football Focus every single full season he has been in the NFL (since 2011). Not very many players have this happen once in their career, and Miller made it a habit. The only time Miller had less than 10 sacks in a season was 2013 when he missed seven games.

The former Texas A&M star is a nightmare in the NFL. Opposing offensive tackles lose sleep over facing this guy. No one will terrorize the league like Lawrence Taylor did, but Von Miller is about as close as you can get to the perfect blend of speed, power and fear that Taylor brought to opposing offenses.